If the tool successfully updates my installation to WordPress 5.8 (i.e. next major release planned for June), I will undo my commenting out, and put my settings back to Immediately. Let’s be optimistic…CogitActive
After so many failures (see Site Tools (vs. cPanel) – part 6: WordPress for the list of posts on the subject matter), I didn’t know if I could trust the SiteGround AutoUpdate tool again. Yet, I didn’t give up on the tool; I wanted to believe (see AutoUpdate tool cured?). When WordPress 5.8 was released on July 20th and my security plugin sent me an email Your WordPress version is out of date
, my optimism started to fade. I did not receive SiteGround typically email about an Upcoming WordPress Update (as for every time it didn’t work; see SiteGround New Client Area and Site Tools – part 10). Therefore, I didn’t trust the UPDATE SCHEDULED notification in Site Tools. Nevertheless, this time, the tool identifying WordPress 5.8 (and not a previous or “unknown” version) was encouraging.
Three days later, I was done with optimism; the email notifications (from my security plugin) about out-of-date plugins, themes, and WordPress 5.8 were popping like crazy. I thought of contacting SiteGround, but I was still disinclined to open a ticket with them; bad memories die hard. Besides, I didn’t have the time to deal with this at the moment and I would be on the road for a couple of days. I didn’t like the idea of not updating WordPress immediately; yet, this was not a security update and I didn’t want to rush things up.
Once back, my installation was up to date; still, it took the tool a week to do what it is supposed to do 24 hours after the release. Anyway, it was a relief not to be out of date anymore and, more importantly, that the tool was working again. I immediately headed to my wp-config.php file to undo my commenting out SiteGround code (see SiteGround AutoUpdate tool ruined), but…
… the line of code was gone!
This is the code how I left it:
/**
* # Disables all core updates. Added by SiteGround Autoupdate:
* define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
*/This is how SiteGround modified it:
/**
*
*
*/I know that I cannot count on SiteGround to clean up behind them; still… However, I was very upset to see they removed my commenting out for the other piece of code (see SiteGround New Client Area and Site Tools – part 11):
@include_once('/var/lib/sec/wp-settings.php'); // Added by SiteGround WordPress management system
I will have to come back to this matter… For now, I have set the minor updates back to Immediately.